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Israeli intelligence: Iran will not have a bomb before 2015

Israeli intelligence officials now estimate that Iran won’t be able to build a nuclear weapon before 2015 or 2016, pushing back by several years previous assessments of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Intelligence briefings given to McClatchy over the last two months have confirmed that various officials across Israel’s military and political echelons now think it’s unrealistic that Iran could develop a nuclear weapons arsenal before 2015. Others pushed the date back even further, to the winter of 2016.

“Previous assessments were built on a set of data that has since shifted,” said one Israeli intelligence officer, who spoke to McClatchy only on the condition that he not be identified. He said that in addition to a series of “mishaps” that interrupted work at Iran’s nuclear facilities, Iranian officials appeared to have slowed the program on their own.

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That little nation on the other side of the globe? Pffft. What, someone somewhere will figure out how to produce a magic guided intercontinental ballistic missile that can deliver a nuclear payload anywhere on Earth? Yeah, right.

Clearly no one is willing / able to stop Iran from doing whatever they want to do, so why the charade?

Let’s just admit we cant or wont stop them and stop pretending like we’re actually doing something. This has been going on since the middle of the Bush administration, and I’m sick and tired of hearing about Iran, especially since no one is going to do anything about it no matter what.